runpod-compute

runpod-compute is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from companion-inc/feynman. It costs 44 tokens per session (481 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A workflow for provisioning and managing RunPod GPU pods, which are rented cloud computers with graphics processors, for explicitly chosen research experiments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, list, stop, start, remove, and transfer files to GPU pods, and to connect to them over SSH.
Why use it?
It gives long-running replication, benchmark, or dataset-heavy work a persistent machine that can be accessed through SSH and resumed later.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create, list, stop, start, remove, and transfer files to GPU pods, and to connect to them over SSH.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/companion-inc/feynman/runpod-compute
About the project

Feynman is an open-source AI research agent that helps users investigate topics with language models. It supports local model providers and hosted model authentication through its setup process. The catalogue contains skills, agents, and instructions that extend Feynman’s workflows.

companion-inc/feynman · 8,870 stars · on GitHub · feynman.is

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add companion-inc/feynman --skill runpod-compute
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/companion-inc/feynman

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 481 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 33
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00044 $0.00481
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00241
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00048

Measured 9d ago against content hash bd784a05414b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

runpod-compute scanned grade C with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

ssh root@<IP> -p <PORT> -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
skills/runpod-compute/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

RunPod Compute

Use runpodctl CLI for persistent GPU pods with SSH access during a specific research run. Do not use this skill for provider administration outside that run; tie every pod to a replication, benchmark, or dataset-heavy research objective.

Setup

brew install runpod/runpodctl/runpodctl   # macOS
runpodctl config --apiKey=YOUR_KEY

Commands

Command Description
runpodctl create pod --gpuType "NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe" --imageName "runpod/pytorch:2.4.0-py3.11-cuda12.4.1-devel-ubuntu22.04" --name experiment Create a pod
runpodctl get pod List all pods
runpodctl stop pod <id> Stop (preserves volume)
runpodctl start pod <id> Resume a stopped pod
runpodctl remove pod <id> Terminate and delete
runpodctl gpu list List available GPU types and prices
runpodctl send <file> Transfer files to/from pods
runpodctl receive <code> Receive transferred files

SSH access

ssh root@<IP> -p <PORT> -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

Get connection details from runpodctl get pod <id>. Pods must expose port 22/tcp.

GPU types

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, NVIDIA RTX A6000, NVIDIA A40, NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe, NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3

When to use

  • Long-running research experiments needing persistent state
  • Large research datasets required by a replication or benchmark
  • Multi-step research work with SSH access between iterations
  • Always stop or remove pods after experiments
  • Check availability: command -v runpodctl
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 49 lines · 44 tokens per session scan C bd784a05414b

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runpod-compute is a skill published in the GitHub repository companion-inc/feynman (8,870 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 481 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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